[Wine] Re: How to install programs in wine?

Ron Thompson webmaster at plansandprojects.com
Sat Jun 24 17:40:58 CDT 2006


On Sat, 24 Jun 2006 20:42:31 +0200, Joris Huizer wrote:

> Ron Thompson wrote:
>> 
>> So there is no windows directory.
>> if I look under :~/.wine/drive_c$, I get: Program\ Files  windows
>> 
>> and then under windows:
>> command  inf          profiles     rundll32.exe  system32    temp       
>>      winhelp.exe   win.ini fonts    notepad.exe  regedit.exe  system    
>>    system.ini  winebrowser.exe  winhlp32.exe
>> 
>> So is this in the wrong place?
>> Do I need to copy it to c: or use a path command? Thanks!
>> 
>> 
> it seems your ~/.wine/dosdevices/c: point to /usr/bin or something like
> that; I think the ~/.wine/dosdevices/c: should point to ~/.wine/drive_c
>    rm ~/.wine/dosdevices/c:&&ln -s ~/.wine/drive_c ~/.wine/dosdevices/c:
> should fix that
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Joris
There are three windows partitions on this machine besides the linux one. 
The wine c: points to HDA1. There is a real windows directory there, but
it doesn't show up in terminal when looking at wine.
Maybe the multiple partitions (on two physical drives) are throwing wine
off?

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